In yesterday’s analysis of the lack of deception in Jason Garrett’s play-calling, I posted some numbers on the Cowboys’ playaction passing game. Garrett is on pace to call just over half as many playaction passes as he’s averaged over the past three seasons, despite the fact that Tony Romo has excelled on them.

While I noticed Garrett’s playaction pass usage dropping over the years, I never really had a basis from which I could compare the Cowboys’ playaction passing game to that of other teams around the league—until now. Pro Football Focus recently published stats on playaction passes for quarterbacks around the NFL, and their results fit with what we’ve seen from the Cowboys—Romo is asked to throw fewer playaction passes than any quarterback in the NFL.

PFF has tracked the Cowboys as attempting a playaction pass on 10.0 percent of Romo’s dropbacks. I have the number at 8.0 percent, and the difference likely stems from how we label playaction. I count only full fakes to the running back as playaction; my hunch is that PFF labels any sort of turn toward the back as a playaction look, and thus has counted six more than me on the season.

Either way, the fact that the Cowboys are last in the NFL in playaction pass rate isn’t surprising. The lack of playaction looks is so dramatic that, using PFF’s numbers, the difference between Romo and the 31st-ranked quarterback—Philip Rivers—is greater than between Rivers and the next 11 quarterbacks.

And it isn’t like playaction passes aren’t working around the league. Of the 32 quarterbacks to take at least half of their team’s snaps, 62.5 percent have a higher completion percentage on playaction passes than normal dropbacks, 78.1 percent have a higher passer rating, and an incredible 84.4 percent have a higher YPA.

Robert Griffin III leads the NFL in playaction passes, faking to the running back on 37.4 percent of his dropbacks. Among other quarterbacks in the top half of the NFL in playaction pass rate are Peyton Manning, Joe Flacco, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, and Ben Roethlisberger.